"Clearly Smitten with the glassy staircase that connects two levels of a 40,000-square-foot space for students, one juror described it as 'a very modern, tight insertion into an old building. It draws you upstairs.' It's a dramatic centerpiece to the student center, named for an illustrious alumnus of the school and created within the shell of a historical Holabird & Roche building. Judges appreciated the integration of the staircase and the lobby that surrounds it, and swooned about "the way it reads from the outside at night, when the channel glass is glowing."